AMPL

APML allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of your ranked interests.

Marjolein Hoekstra

Attention profile sources
Though not an exhaustive list, your attention profile could be based on:

• pages you bookmark and tags you assign
• your favorite videos, music and TV shows
• hyperlinks you follow and share with your friends
• things you write about and topics you keep track of
• items you click on in your feed reader
• things you buy from a web store
• places you visit and events you attend

... or M-CA$H...

I believe the children are our future (PDF, 7 MB) by Faris Yabob

Via Emice

Via Viral Electronics

Visualizing Social Software Best Practices: Three Approaches

It's an exciting time in social media and design is a big part of that. There's an infinite horizon in design alone but also factors like Adobe's AIR and Thermo, not to mention the thrillingly tiny mobile world. The new web is supposed to be all about democratized participation (you can not only Read, you can Write to it too!) and usability will be an important part of making it not just sustainable but helping the web really live up to its potential.

Pay Me for My Content by Jaron Lanier

There’s an almost religious belief in the Valley that charging for content is bad. The only business plan in sight is ever more advertising. One might ask what will be left to advertise once everyone is aggregated.

How long must creative people wait for the Web’s new wealth to find a path to their doors? A decade is a long enough time that idealism and hope are no longer enough. If there’s one practice technologists ought to embrace, it is the evaluation of empirical results.

Giant Global Graph by Tim Berners Lee

In the long term vision, thinking in terms of the graph rather than the web is critical to us making best use of the mobile web, the zoo of wildy differing devices which will give us access to the system. Then, when I book a flight it is the flight that interests me. Not the flight page on the travel site, or the flight page on the airline site, but the URI (issued by the airlines) of the flight itself. That's what I will bookmark. And whichever device I use to look up the bookmark, phone or office wall, it will access a situation-appropriate view of an integration of everything I know about that flight from different sources. The task of booking and taking the flight will involve many interactions. And all throughout them, that task and the flight will be primary things in my awareness, the websites involved will be secondary things, and the network and the devices tertiary.

See also:
Kari Lüönd redet Tacheles

Gut fürs Pendlerherz.

Mehr Informationen findet man bei Adtagg

Print Ads 2D Barcodes

Google believes that technology can revolutionize traditional print advertising and make it even more useful for readers. This fits with our commitment to making advertising as useful as possible for the end user.

[...]

Why would newspaper ads include 2D barcodes?

For advertisers, using 2D barcodes in newspaper ads can be an effective and flexible way to engage with potential customers. The benefit to readers is an easier, quicker way to get more information about businesses that interest them.

How can I add 2D barcodes to my print ads?

If you're an advertiser who is interested in using 2D barcodes in a Google Print Ads campaign, please contact your Google representative.

Selected 2D barcode decoding software

You can find decoding software and lists of supported devices by visiting sites like these:

http://reader.kaywa.com/en
http://mobilecodes.nokia.com(for Nokia devices only)

More 2D barcode/QR Code decoding software can be found by searching on Google.

See also in german:
Zeitung der neuen Generation: Die Welt Kompakt mit QR Codes

Garrett Dimon explains how he redesigned Ebay's Registration in Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay's Registration. Insightful read.

Noch nie war der Titel Zeitung der neuen Generation folgerichtiger. Seit Freitag nutzt die Welt Kompakt des Axel Springer Verlags QR Codes.
Der Axel Springer Verlag hat uns freundlicherweise erlaubt die revolutionäre Freitagsausgabe auch als PDF zum Herunterladen zur Verfügung zu stellen.

Zum Einsatz kommt der Kaywa Reader und ein Flashbasiertes Frontend, dass auf dem Kaywa QR Code API basiert. So ist es für den Axel Springer Verlag möglich, Codes rasch zu eröffnen und die Zugriffe via QR Code jederzeit live zu messen.

Genau die gleich Idee hat Google ebenfalls am Freitag angekündigt und ich würde jetzt mal frech behaupten: Wer sich bei den Verlegern nicht sputet, könnte das ganze Printwerbegeschäft an Google verlieren. Denn mit QR Codes könnte Google Internet, Mobile und Print erstmals aus einer Hand anbieten.

Siehe auch:
QR Codes in Germany (III): Die Welt with QR Codes
Klassische Werbung ohne QR Codes, wie lange gibts das noch?